President Barack Obama's (D) Attorney General, Eric Holder defiantly defended the federal government's "right" to target American citizens with drone strikes. He argued in recent publications that it might be necessary to kill Americans on U.S. soil with warrantless drone death strikes to prevent "terrorism".

Some Americans felt such killings were unconstitutional, while other Americans defended the President's stance, arguing the Constitution no longer applies in an age of terrorism.

A fleet of fully autonomous armed drones could prove a powerful tool for Presidents in decades to come. With a press of a button they could instantly schedule the warrantless death sentence of the President's domestic adversaries (the "terrorists", ostensibly) without the kind of pesky ethical/moral struggles that even elite U.S. troops might have with such policies.